Employment

Research AssociateUniversity of Glasgow, January 2017-presentWorking on the EU-funded Levitate project. [link]
Rewarded for my ‘Exceptional Contribution’ in 2017.

Research AssistantUniversity of Glasgow, September 2016-December 2016Working on a project investigating new interaction techniques for virtual reality. Funded by a donation from Nokia.

Research AssistantUniversity of Glasgow, September 2015-September 2016Working in the Multimodal Interaction Group on the ABBI project. I developed software for the project and investigated novel ways of using wearable technology to help visually impaired children at home and at school. The research involved teachers, parents, visual impairment organisations and charities, giving us strong insight into how we could best use the technology to benefit children. [link]

Lab DemonstratorUniversity of Glasgow, September 2012-June 2013I provided lab assistance for two level three computing science courses: Interactive Systems 3 and Distributed Information Management 3. In both courses I mentored small teams of students who were designing, prototyping and evaluating interactive systems.

Research AssistantUniversity of Glasgow, June 2012-September 2012Worked in the Multimodal Interaction Group as an RA on the MultiMemoHome project. I developed and deployed a novel home-care system which used digital pen and paper as input. [link]

Summer Research ScholarUniversity of Glasgow, June 2011-September 2011Worked on two research projects, one of which led to two accepted conference papers on the study of visual perception of image complexity and how this may be determined computationally. Also led a small research team, investigating the interpretation and memorability of graphics. [link]

Summer Research ScholarUniversity of Glasgow, June 2010-September 2010Worked on a research project, developing a series of metrics and software tools to analyse aesthetic properties of hand-drawn graphs. [link]

Teaching & Supervision

Gave lectures on the masters-level HCI-DE course (2018).

Supervised several student projects at undergraduate and postgraduate-taught level (2015-present).

Mentored several PhD students within the Multimodal Interaction Group at Glasgow.